Insane Popes of Kolmar Park and Dickinson Park Interview with early 1970’s member “Jake”.
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- Last summer, Jake offered to spend the day walking around some of the North Side Insane Popes former hoods, such as Kolmar Park, Dickinson Park, Larkin’s old block on Kilpatrick, Lennies Grill on Western Ave & Roscoe, and his old apartment on Western & Peterson.
Love the content bro! Chicago has a bad but beautiful history that help’s understand why the world is as it is today!
Great interview Jake, Donnie was just telling me about this interview on Facebook ,but Iam not on Facebook, that's cool it on u-tube.take care my friend,Capone
@@Keith-rl8xk What did Lil Larkin think of this interview Capone?
Capone that used to chill with big country?
@@mobobrien4934 No, this is Capone from the 1970’s Popes.
Lil Larkin liked it Josh ,He thought you were someone else,He didn't recognize your voice..Great job brother
@@Keith-rl8xk Glad to hear you and him enjoyed it!
Great video. I like the format of walking around the old neighborhood doing an interview like this, showing old tags, hangouts and war stories.
@@perrymason4208 I always preferred it done this way, it beats sitting at a table with no visual cues to help the audience.
Pope's were u know what FAKE AND PHONY
Man, the history of our hoods is so wild, but years out the game, there’s a real respect and understanding for the blocks we held down. We repped, ADR para siempre, with pride. But if you really think on it, past the colors, hoods, and flags, we all cut from the same cloth and got way more that connects us than separates us.
Much love and respect to the OGs that survived and can share their history/stories.
Deuces were crazy over there in the 90s got Chase coming out of portage theater one day
What up west, you don't disappoint bro
It’s just so different compared to Los Angeles in the 70s. These guys seem to been fighting with hands with occasional shootings here and there. In LA, the gangs hated each other so much. They were doing drive by’s back and forth in 70 and on. They said f fighting, we shooting! An og told me they would run down the block shooting up houses and shi!
Yes California took a bad turn long before the Midwest. That's why the East West rap wars were deadly and took the country and music industry by storm.
Just think music was fueled by what I consider street soldiers. Always ready to hit the bunker and shoot back, even if drinking with the homies on the bungalow porch.
God I love the homes in Chicago, grew up SW side by Midway airport, approx 67th Pulaski. Glad to have found this channel a month or so ago, love the content you've been putting out. I've been posting you on to my family and friends so they can relive some of the old days too
It’s the same shit most gangs started in the 1950s here n where shooting already in the 70s. If you don’t know it, don’t speak on it.
You’re serious? Chicago does more gang shootings than anywhere else so the 70s doesn’t mean sht now.
Old guys have the history, at least what's left of it. I was at Lane tech 69 to 72
Haven't heard of popes since like 2000
People are so fast to judge gangs by calling racist. There is no such thing in my opinion, it was more neighborhood kids protecting each other. So maybe yes some gangs had more color than others but I imagine it was out of protection and not because of color. That goes for every game from White, Black, Brown, purple, red, or whatever color you would like to include
They only call white gangs racist while I’ve seen the most racist sht come outta black and Mexican gangs… smh this bullsht stops now. 2025 Babee!
Do you know what POPES stands for? I'll give you a hint; in the early 80s they changed it to Protect Our People Eliminate Scum because originally the S was a derogatory term for Latinos. Otherwise they would have no business partners finding good stuff to sell.
Apparently you don't know what popes stood for if you don't know you don't know they were a racist gang
My uncle was Jimmy Johnson and his twin Wally Johnson Jimmie in that picture
@@stevejohnson6840 Jake mentions the Johnson brothers being the Popes leaders before Larkin.
Ask The Corporal if he remembers the spy caught at 29 palms in the summer of 79 ?
@@edgarperezlfwl Next time I talk to him I will.
@westlove1226 I sent the spy to 29 Palms - Delta Corridor . Not bad for an 18 year old .
What happened to archer park
@@TonyStark-oj3lo those are different Popes…
@@westlove1226 Yeah, those are SSIP’s!
Deuces left early 2000's. Mid 2000's to early 2010's there was plenty of peewees there that represented gds. Maniacs were right down the street. Couple kings used to live around there. When big country and capone left the stones came in for a couple years. Mid 2010's there was nothing going on anymore. You gotta go to AC or BC to actually see some action
@@mobobrien4934 You’re forgetting the Gaylords who claimed Dickinson in the late 2000’s to early 2010’s.
@westlove1226 I was there on those three corners from mid 2000's to early 2010's and I never even heard of a gaylord back then.. from that time big country was pretty much running that set with other peewees and he was claiming GD back then. Stones moved in after Big country got locked up and moved out of state for tagging and burglary charges. She got a judge to let him walk out of state after those charges... I knew big country but when the stones came in they weren't really on anything you had to go to Addison and Cicero or Belmont and Cicero to actually see some action cuz in the early 2010s there wasn't anything going on..
@westlove1226 I forgot the set but Maniacs were about five or six blocks away and then you had the vice Lords and the Kings from AC always come in and start s*** and then you had the LB's from BC come in and starts shit 2. The Kings at school in Laverne we're always coming through as well.. set called school block just north of brother City
@@westlove1226I lived on Warner and Milwaukee in 1998-99 and the Deuces was all through there, I lived next door to one right above the liquor store on the corner, I also witnessed at 2-3am maniacs stripping some guy naked thinking he was a Deuce it was crazy.
Jake’s a great guy!
I Miss LiL Mick (RIP) Another great guy, gone too soon.
I believe Lenny's was a GL hangout
Where are you a GL from?
@@westlove1226 Cicero
@@SLICK-GLN Cicero the suburb? There have never been Gaylords there, matter of fact, their enemies the Noble Knights were there.
@westlove1226 not true we were at war with them for a short time back in the late 70s we had a sit down and ended it was with Palmer st mostly that they had a beef with .Yes there were GL there was there along with older guys that tried to set up a group there in the early 70s.What chi west group were you in I meta bunch of Chi West dudes at the projects near California in the early eighties .
Dickinson Park was still Deuce Hood till the mid 00’s it was Gaylords Hood in the mid to late 80’s. ID’z that was over there transfer to Hamlin Park in 06’, 07’.
Dickinson Park Deuces were done hanging out after that incident in 2002, which I’m sure needs no reminder for you. Gaylords also hung there after the Deuces in the late 2000’s.
@ Deuces was still over ther post that shit Gaylord’s been died down or flipped Royals or some other white gang that was left.
a tiny nothing-park that was long after-the-fact, much like the clubs you speak of... IP/SCR/RPN? HUGE sections all over the country and still bigger and more acitve than those two clubs, ANY DAY, wanna bet?? And that's not even mentioning the SS people Popes that who's shirt Jake^^ up there in the video is wearing, sooo....
Larkin and the NM Popes had an EMPIRE like no other club had, more than a half dozen parks on the NS belonged to him including Kilbourn, which he GAVE to the GLs, only for them to repay him with the ultimate price, smh, R.I.P.
DEUCES?? You mean the club that couldn't hang with its own allies so they flip and pretty much ruin the Golden Age of bangin, the 80s, for everyone with the collapse of all the great allainces, THOSE deuces?? pfft, niggah plze, just stfu, you new school types ruined Respectful Boppin for us all, 90s era nothin but a bunch of thugs and car-jackers, cant get along with anyone, ebk all day, eh? yeah right, stfu
Old school
I remember hearing about the Gaylords in 6th grade in the 70s and I was just like there is no way.
Pulaski Park back in the day
@@davidzelasko3333 What’s up Half Pint! Thanks for sharing those pics with DC earlier, you have a great one by the wall on Iowa & Hoyne with Kong. Be on the lookout for my Bruce Mikka interview this week.
@@westlove1226 You know DC too?
@ of course, and his brother Rebel.
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Good catch lol
That would be crazy if someone came up saw the shirt, Oh chit a pope. 💥💥💥 Got the last one. 😂
@@ChicoTheMan69 he’s not the first nor the last, tf you on…?
Get off that shit.
This ain't about hate, it's about representing Chicago's real culture, history and the pride we had in our neighbors.
Goofy ass!!!
There are Popes all over. You’re just not aware!
@@westlove1226what he means is imagine some rival from there booms old dude over old feuds
@ yea not with me around.
3D bakery!
Hero Subs!
Jake is in his 70’s and still represents the mayhem and bloodshed that happened over essentially nothing. He likely did time in prison for senseless reasons like the rest of his ilk. I don’t have a problem with guys forming a club and wearing letterman sweaters with customized emblems. I always admired that, but it’s the wanton violence and criminality associated with it that I vehemently disagree with. It’s sad and shameful behaviour. There’s no glory in it but only faded memories and graffiti like was shown in the most obscure and isolated places.
@@phillipgrey you some sort of sociologist? Your analysis is misplaced. First off Jake isn’t in his 70’s, Jake is still in his 60’s, secondly, he never did prison time nor was he killing anyone out here. He represents the true greasers of Chicago who fought mainly over parks, turf, and the right to represent your club/gang. That did not include protecting drug turf, or gaining money for unrighteous reasons. Truth be told, wearing sweaters and acting like a gang without putting in any work is poser-ish and hold no merit in the culture’s eyes, in order to preserve what you believe it sadly violence has to get used… you’re telling me you can simple “talk it out” with the enemy over who can hang out where?
@@westlove1226what bro is saying is it’s all stupid
@@burnttoaster6313 he certainly has an “outsider” perspective towards this culture which is understandable, yet unnecessary to voice. We all have our stories to tell, and it ain’t all just colors and cards, blood was always spilled, including by yours truly.